Getting started writing an entry in your blog, can be one of the most grueling and paralyzing things to do for an actor and his website. Here are some of the ways we actors try to avoid creating content for ourselves on the internet.

1. To-Do ListsI am an expert at To-Do lists. I love making them. I love crossing off items. I love love love them. And even when I am half way through a to-do list, I will pull out a new index card (my preferred to-do list medium) and create a nice fresh list. And this is exactly what I do with the blog entry. I put it on the list, then just carry it over to a fresh list. And the cycle begins. After which seeing this item on the list being carried over and over creates shame. I wonder if I love shame just as much as I love to-do lists. Because I seem to create a lot of it.

2. Post it on a list of action steps towards your careerI am a big believer of action steps. In fact, I keep them in plain sight of my everyday live. Right there on a bulletin board above my desk. But what happens is a sort of burying effect. The action step of writing a entry on my blog, gets swept aside. Lost between mailing PR casting an updated resume and emailing Matthew Miller for the third time in two months about the short films I have been cast in. Now granted, any action step is a good action step, but some action steps are just bullies. They beat up other action steps that can't stand up for themselves. I need to teach the blog entry action step how to land a right hook.

3. NetflixWho doesn't love coming home from a hard day of running around and chasing your dreams to sit in front of the TV and watch Netflix? Tell me. Who? Do you think I could have spared some time between watching the entire season of Orange is the New Black and fixing pot stickers from Trader Joe's to write a blog entry? My first thought is NO. I really needed to see how Red was going to be able to get the next shipment of produce from Neptune's Garden. And pot stickers are delicious. Maybe the bigger question, isn't if Netflix is the vaccum of all creative dreams your drama teacher warned you about, but what should I watch next? (If you say Breaking Bad, I will cut you!)

4. Create a Blog FolderYou know what. I'm going to create a blog folder. A cheap man's version of the app Evernote. And whenever I see a image. Read a quote from David Mamet. Have a flash-fart of an idea to write about. I will keep it all in one place. Yes, the problem is that I don't have my creative equator centralized. I'm all over the place. Yes. Having a folder that says Blog Ideas will be the sure fire way for me to write an entry on my blog. I mean, I know it's buried deep in my Acting Vision folder. Which is part of several folders in my Documents folder. But at least I know where to find it. Can't have it live on the desktop. Because that is just asking for trouble. Soon I'll have a junkyard of folder "ideas" swimming in OCD hell on the desktop. Can't have that. What is interesting is the time and energy I just put into creating a Blog folder would have taken me the same amount as actually writing a blog entry.

5. Accountability PartnerYou know that person you trust. That person who will call you out on your character defects. Hey Person I Trust, I give you permission to call me out on my bullshit. If you want to get things done. These people are amazing and crucial to have on your side. But if you want to avoid getting anything done. Put calling them to be accountable for your blog entry on your to-do list, heat up some pot stickers and fire up Netflix. Call them and ask how they are doing. Text them about the weather and just never get to the real dirt. Because if you actually tell them you are asking to be accountable and you don't follow through, here will be some of the phrases you use to cover you avoiding writing the entry: "At least I showed up," "I'm much more like the tortoise than the hare," I'm making headway towards writing that blog entry for my acting website just by having you in place."